What is the Florida Man birthday challenge?

There’s a new internet craze going around and this one may hit a little close to home.

The “Florida Man challenge” includes users searching the internet for the phrase “Florida Man” followed by their birthday. For example, if your birthday is June 7, you’d search for Florida Man June 7. The results would show what a “Florida man” did on that day (in the case of June 7 it would be “Florida man gets head-butted, knocked out by alligator.”

Florida Man has been the subject of jokes for years, featuring its own Twitter account called @_FloridaMan founded in 2013. The account features outlandish stories that start with “Florida Man….”

“Florida Man is a Twitter feed that curates news headline descriptions of bizarre domestic incidents involving a male subject residing in the state of Florida. The tweets are meant to be humorously read as if they were perpetrated by a single individual dubbed “the world’s worst superhero.” In March 2019, a "Florida Man Challenge" game began trending across various social media platforms, in which participants shared news headlines taken from search queries for "Florida Man" followed by their birthday.”

You can see some of the best Florida Man headlines below, along with some of the Florida Man Challenge results: